Re: themes for GNOME2 docs

[David Merrill <david lupercalia net>]

On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 10:58:23AM +0000, Telsa Gwynne wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2001 at 09:40:36AM -0800 or thereabouts, Chris Lyttle wrote:
> > Ah ha! Now these are the sort of arguments that seem reasonable to me
> > against using special effects, esp the one about confusing the user. I
> > would suggest adding these comments to the style guide instead of a
> > plain 'dont do this' as this will give some view of the reasoning behind
> > doing things a certain way.
> 
> Never mind confusing the user. What about confusing the documentor?
> I have read the entire thread and still don't know.
> 
> What is a drop shadow?

It's a faux shadow designed to make the image appear to "hover" over
the background, onto which it therefore casts a "shadow". It is visually
nice when done well, but just as often it is annoying. It doesn't seem
appropriate for a screenshot, where you want a plain exposition of what
the screen looks like in real use, imho.

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